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Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down

Just a few weeks after a major power outage took out LiveJournal, almost all of Wikimedia Foundation’s services are offline due to a tripped circuit breaker at a different colocation. Among other services, Wikimedia runs the well-known Wikipedia open encyclopedia. Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers. They have established an off-site backup of the fundraising page until power returns”

When the Chinese government wanted to keep its users off Facebook and Google, it blocked the entire country's access to the U.S. companies' apps and sites. And when citizens started using third-party workarounds — like Tor, proxies and VPNs...